FRM564950: Wroclaw, 1948. Butchery. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564965: Kalisz, 1950. Lace and fabric factory. / Bridgeman Images

FRM564986: Warsaw, 1946. Photographer. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565004: Warsaw, 1948. Old Town. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565010: Warsaw, 1948. Academy of Fine Arts. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565046: Warsaw, 1940s. East-West Route. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565079: Warsaw, 1947. Flood, Poniatowski bridge. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565085: Warsaw, 1955. Jasna street, Bank of Eagles project by Jan Heuricha, young project manager from Otto. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565100: Warsaw March 1982. Krakowskie Przedmiescie street. Pictured: Car being pulled over for control check. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565123: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Dluga street / Krasinskich square, unofficial 1st May Solidarity parade. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565126: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Dluga street, unofficial beginning of 1st May Solidarity. Flag written, ' Solidarity'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565135: Warsaw, 14 October 1923. Main Post office, International mail and telegraph department. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565159: Warsaw, Poland, 12.1972. Start of the Monte Carlo Rally. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565174: Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 06.1975. Worker sleeps on a bin. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565186: Warsaw 01.1977. Roman Polanski - television interview. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565228: Czestochowa, 15.08.1982. Martial Law in Poland, pictured: contestants in the Warsaw Pilgrimage Walk to Czestochowa, group 6, demonstrating their support for 'Solidarity'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565318: Warsaw, Poland, 01.06.1979. Gymnastic show at the gala organised in front of the Palace of Science and Culture (Palac Kultury i Nauki) on International Children's Day (Dzien Dziecka). / Bridgeman Images

FRM565354: Zyrardow, Poland,18.01.1973. Advertising boards on the wall. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565357: Warsaw, Poland, 12.05.1974. Cleaning terrains around allotments. Sunday Party social free service action organized by the co-operative of housing estate in Rakowiec Poludniowy. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565366: Warsaw, Poland, 30.04.1977. Culture Activist Day. Dancers during show at he party for members of Trade and Co-operative Union (Zwiazek Zawodowy Pracownikow Handlu i Spoldzielczosci ZZPHiS). / Bridgeman Images

FRM565381: Gniezno 03.06.1979. Pope John Paul II's first Pilgrimage to Poland. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565390: Gdansk, 12.06.1987. Pope John Paul II's third Pilgrimage to Poland, Westerplatte visit. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565399: Moscow, March 1986. Polish-Soviet relations. Wojciech Jaruzelski's visit to Moscow to celebrate the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Photographed: Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union E. Ligaczowa (right ) bids Wojciech Jaruzelski (left) farewell at the airport. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565121: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Senatorska street, unofficial 1st May Solidarity parade. Banner written ' University with manual workers'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565127: Warsaw 01.05.1982. Martial Law in Poland. Stara street, unofficial beginning of 1st Maj Solidarnosc. Pictured: banner written ' No to dictatorship'. T-shirt written, 'Solidarnosc'. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565145: Poland, 05.1974, Two men standing and chatting near truck. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565166: Turoszow, 02. 1983. Turow mining and power plant. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565169: Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, 11.1974. Horse killed in a car accident on a public road. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565190: Torun, Poland, 12.1977. Merinotex Factory - spinning mill workshop. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565193: Belchatow, 09.1977. Brown Coal open-cast mine. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565205: Warsaw, 04.06.1989. First round of Parliamentary and Senate elections, also known as the June Elections. Photographed: Voting at Voting office. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565214: Bialoleka, 12.1981. Internment residents during martial law period in Poland. Solidarity internment residents taking a walk. Photo taken from visit hall with a smuggled camera. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565220: Wadowice, town in Souther Poland, 50km from Cracow, the birthplace of pope John Paul II. Virgin Mary's Offertory minor basilica at the market square. at right: faimly house of the pope Lesser Poland Province, 2009 / Bridgeman Images

FRM565259: Katowice 16.12.1981. Martial Law in Poland, The pacification of 'Wujek' strike. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565271: Cracow, 03.04.2005. The Pope's autograph on a letter sent to Stanislaw Abrahamowicz. The pope signed 'uncle' on letters with informal religious posts. They remained friends till death. / Bridgeman Images

FRM565289: Warsaw, 1979. Andrzej Seweryn born 25 April 1946, is a Polish-French actor and film director. He has starred in over 50 movies, and is one of the three foreign actors in the world to be hired by Comedie-Francaise. / Bridgeman Images